On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 1:10 PM Gabriel Ellsworth < [email protected]> wrote:
> > I found Using brackets instead of parentheses for \parenthesize - > LilyPond wiki > <https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Using_brackets_instead_of_parentheses_for_%5Cparenthesize> > and used that code to mock up the following: > > [image: image.png] > > My concern with this approach is that busy professional singers might see > the square brackets whilst sight-reading and think, “What does that mean? > Am I actually supposed to observe that quarter rest or not? Do the beats in > this measure add up to a whole note or not?” The distraction could cause > reading errors and lost rehearsal time. > I would vote yes for this approach. If I saw that in a choir piece, I would assume the rest was not in the original source and was added by an editor. You might want to increase the bracket font size, though. -- Knute Snortum
